Pants

Textile

2003-75-23

From: Sudan

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-75-23
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sudan
Section African
Materials Cotton | Pigment
Technique Woven | Sewn | Dyed | Braided
Description

A pair of pants made of 4 inch strips of mud dyed woven cotton sewn together; the waist band is folded over for a tie to be pulled through; the bottom of each leg is edged with a braided cord which continues up one side to create a curvilinear decorative motif. Piece dyed.

Height 90.8 cm
Width 83.8 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.434 - Other Number | Textile #40 - Other Number | 21 - Other Number

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